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Success built on ruthless streak
Top swimming coach heads to NZ From the World-renowned coach Bill Sweetenham has been snapped up by Swimming New Zealand in a temporary role as high performance coach. The former Australia head coach and Great Britain performance director will start on February 8 following the resignation of coaches Mark Regan and Scott Talbot, who is now at the New South Wales Institute. Regan coached short-course world champion Lauren Boyle. He had been based at the Millennium Institute on Auckland’s North Shore for three years but became frustrated by his employment situation and resigned.
Behind the affable exterior and well-rehearsed lines, there’s a ruthlessness about England cricket that has got the team to the top of the tree. They are arguably the world’s best side at the moment – they are No 2 in tests and one-dayer internationals and No 4 in Twenty20 cricket which is superior to South Africa’s numbers – and aren’t afraid to make difficult decisions that could backfire. Ashley Giles was recently appointed coach of the one-day and Twenty20 sides and already he’s jettisoned batting coach Graham Gooch (he will still work with the test side) and replaced him with Graham Thorpe. Giles, who is a former England selector, has made it patently clear what he expects from his players and, it seems, no one is allowed to underperform for too long in any format of the game. Wicketkeeper Craig Kieswetter and bowler Jade Dernbach have been dropped and a reluctant Tim Bresnan left at home to try to refind some pace after elbow surgery 12 months ago. Even Stuart Broad, who for most of last year was one of the world’s leading seamers, was dropped during the victorious test series in India because he went wicketless in three innings. It’s a situation New Zealand can only dream of. “We have got a lot of strength in depth at the moment,” Giles said. “We showed that by taking a relatively inexperienced bowling attack to India for the one-dayers and leaving some really good players behind. That’s a key for us. We need to look after our good players really well, keep them hungry and keep them on the top of their game. We talk about [Broad] being left out of sides. He’s got a major part to play in all three forms of the game for us. It’s a good position to be in.” It’s why England will go into their tour of New Zealand as favourites.
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in Great Britain, including numerous world championship, European and Commonwealth titles, although Olympic success did not come until Beijing 2008. He has established a successful consultancy and continues to lecture, publish and conduct clinics on a variety of subjects and has produced a series of educational and instructional videos on skills and technique. He is a published author of Championship Swim Training. “We are absolutely delighted that Bill has taken up the role with us,” Swimming NZ acting chief executive Mark O’Connor said. - APNZ
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Christie eyes national title
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By Myles Hume
Mid Canterbury cyclist Jason Christie has another national title in his sights.
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Mid Canterbury star cyclist Jason Christie is hopeful that a two-year stint away from the track will not stand in the way of his quest to clinch another national title. To add to the challenge, Christie only just hopped off one of the most gruelling road races at the New Zealand Cycling Classic in Manawatu where he won the final 161km stage, in the 560km race. Today, Christie will ride on track in Invercargill for the first time since 2011 at the New Zealand track nationals, where he will comptete in the elite men’s points race, individual pursuit, scratch race and the team pursuit, joining elite cyclist Lauren Ellis, of Hinds, as the two Mid Canterbury representatives. Adjusting from the road to the velodrome can be a tough ask for the best of riders, but yesterday Christie felt he was in good stead only three days after finishing the race up north. “A lot of guys need a lot of time to readjust, but for me if I’m going well on the road then I usually adjust pretty fast to the track,” Christie said. “To be honest I’m feeling really good, I had a pretty cruisy day on Monday, I drove down yesterday to Invercargill and after spending 30 minutes on the bike, I felt pretty good.” Christie took time away from the track to get away from the politics of track cycling which he believed Cycling New Zealand needed to clean up. Happy with the way the organisation is now running, Christie said he has high expectations of himself to leave his mark two years on from winning the elite men’s points race. He hoped to shine in the longer endurance races. “I have a wee personal goal in mind, last time I walked off the track I was a national champ, so there is one event I want to have a good crack at,” he said, not wanting to reveal the secret. Christie’s first race will be the elite men’s points race today.
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They arrived in the country on Tuesday night and will have a few days to adjust before tackling New Zealand in the ANZ three-match series of Twenty20s, one-day internationals and tests. They face a New Zealand XI in Whangarei in two warm-up Twenty20 games early next week before next weekend’s first Twenty20 international at Eden Park. The Black Caps’ best chances of success will come in the limited overs matches and they have renewed confidence after their historic 2-1 one-day series win in South Africa. Despite this, Giles knows his country expects. “The expectation is always there when you coach any side but particularly England.” he said. “We are not silly. [New Zealand] will be difficult to beat on their home turf. “We don’t want to get dragged into anything around how they are playing their cricket. We will do our homework well on the opposition but we need to focus well on what we are doing. But it will be tough. Any side that goes to South Africa and beats them in one-day cricket is going to be tough in any form whether it’s T20s or one-dayers.” Broad will captain a Twenty20 side missing some of the big names of England cricket. Controversial batsman Kevin Pietersen is being rested for the third time in seven months before coming out for the test series and others like Alastair Cook, Ian Bell, Jonathan Trott and Graeme Swann will join the squad in time for the three one-dayers. This year’s Champions Trophy in England and the home-and-away Ashes series with Australia loom as priorities but they won’t want to drop their game against a country in trouble. It’s not what a ruthless outfit would do. England Twenty20 squad: Stuart Broad (c), Jonny Bairstow, Danny Briggs, Jos Buttler, Jade Dernbach, Steven Finn, Alex Hales, Michael Lumb, Stuart Meaker, Eoin Morgan, Samit Patel, James Tredwell, Chris Woakes, Luke Wright. - APNZ
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Sweetenham has a rich pedigree in the sport. He was the first director of coaching for Queensland before going on to serve as head swimming coach at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra, head swimming coach at the Hong Kong Sports Institute, national youth coach for Australian Swimming (1995-2000), and national performance director of British Swimming from 2000 to 2007. In his time as national youth coach, his programmes developed the likes of Ian Thorpe and Grant Hackett. He achieved outstanding international results
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Thursday, 31 January 2013
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Canterbury High Country
TODAY
TODAY
Fine apart from areas of coastal low cloud from late afternoon. Winds mainly light.
Fine. Wind at 1000m: NW dying in the morning. Wind at 2000m: NW dying in the morning.
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29 OVERNIGHT MIN 12
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27 OVERNIGHT MIN 13
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23 OVERNIGHT MIN 12 TOMORROW
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Midnight Tonight
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Wind less than km/h 30
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SUNDAY: Mainly fine. Northwesterlies.
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TODAY: Fine, but low cloud from evening. Light winds.
SATURDAY: Fine, but morning and evening cloud. Light winds.
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Ashburton Forecast TOMORROW: Fine, but morning and evening cloud. Light winds.
CHRISTCHURCH
30 to 59
Auckland Hamilton Napier Palmerston North Wellington Nelson Blenheim Greymouth Christchurch Timaru Queenstown Dunedin Invercargill
60 plus
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TOMORROW
FZL: Above 3000m
FZL: Above 3000m
Mainly fine, but morning and evening cloud. Mainly fine. Light winds inland, easterlies near the coast. Wind at 1000m: Light winds. Wind at 2000m: Light winds, tending N.
SATURDAY
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fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine fine
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SATURDAY
Mainly fine, but morning and evening cloud. Mainly fine. Light winds, northwesterly Light winds inland, easterlies near the coast. about the tops.
NZ Situation
A large, slow-moving high covers much of the country but moves away to the east during the weekend. The easterly flow in the north tends northeast on Saturday as a trough advances across the Tasman Sea. The trough moves onto southern New Zealand during Sunday.
SUNDAY
SUNDAY
Mainly fine. Winds may turn northwest.
Mainly fine, showers near the divide later. Strengthening northwesterlies.
MONDAY
MONDAY
Rain and southerlies.
Occasional showers. Southwesterly change.
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River Levels
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Rakaia Fighting Hill (NIWA) at 1:45 pm, yesterday Nth Ashburton at 2:00 pm, yesterday Sth Ashburton at 3:30 am, yesterday Rangitata Klondyke
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Canterbury Readings
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Ashburton Airport
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Temperatures °C
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0.0
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Timaru Airport
0.0
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11.1
22.6
11.9
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9 pm am 3
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7:33 1:46 7:56 2:08 8:20 2:35 8:47 3:00 9:13 3:29 The times shown are for the Ashburton River mouth. For the Rangitata river mouth subtract 16 minutes and for the Rakaia river mouth subtract 6 minutes.
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Good fishing
Set 10:33 am Rise 10:34 pm
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Rise 6:32 am Set 9:00 pm
Good
Good fishing
Rise 6:33 am Set 8:59 pm
Good
Good fishing
Set 11:40 am Rise 11:04 pm
Set 12:49 pm Rise 11:36 pm
10 Feb 8:22 pm
18 Feb 9:32 am
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